On Thursday 31 January 2013 01:46:11 Jeff King wrote:
> Currently, a branch filter like `--contains`, `--merged`, or
> `--no-merged` is ignored when we are not in listing mode.
> For example:
>
> git branch --contains=foo bar
>
> will create the branch "bar" from the current HEAD, ignoring
> the `--contains` argument entirely. This is not very
> helpful. There are two reasonable behaviors for git here:
>
> 1. Flag an error; the arguments do not make sense.
>
> 2. Implicitly go into `--list` mode
>
> This patch chooses the latter, as it is more convenient, and
> there should not be any ambiguity with attempting to create
> a branch; using `--contains` and not wanting to list is
> nonsensical.
>
> That leaves the case where an explicit modification option
> like `-d` is given. We already catch the case where
> `--list` is given alongside `-d` and flag an error. With
> this patch, we will also catch the use of `--contains` and
> other filter options alongside `-d`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
Tested-by: Peter Wu <lekenst...@gmail.com>

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I have tested this patch on top of 1.8.1.2 and it seems to work.
One note, the following command spits out master without complaining about the
non-existing branch name:
git branch --contains <id> master <non-existant branch name>
(the order of branches doesn't affect the result.)
Regards,
Peter
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